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VOLUME 25 NO. 44
Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday. September 28, 1945.
TEN CENTS
Local Golfers “Do It Again” As
Pinehurst Suffers Third Defeat
Country Club Players
Almost Triple Yadkin
Score in Final Count
THE OLD DAYS
By Robert E. Harlow
Pinehurst’s effort to redeem the
lost reputation of its summer golf
ers met with utter failure today
when for the third straight time
this season, Southern Pines Coun
try Club players administered a
severe defeat to the Yadkins. The
final count was 24 and 1-2 to 8
and 1-2, sufficient to settle all
doubt as to the superior qualities
of the Southern Pines group.
Chester I. Williams, the Pine-
hurst captain, considered the Jap
anese solution for defeat, but de
cided the situation was not quite
desperate enough to call for ex
treme measures. Williams was
filled with anguish at the woe
which came to his company of
golfers^ He stated that his side
had looked good on paper, but
collapsed in the field. About all
that remained for Pinehurst was
a half confidently muttered chal
lenge—“Wait until next year.” '
Meantime Southern Pines is
celebrating the best year it has
experienced in inter-town golf.
Playing at the top of the list for
the winners were Roy Grinnell
and Mac Alspaugh, the tire and
automobile repair man. Grinnell,
the Southern Pines pro, executed
35-35-70 with his own ball nd his
partner defeated Henson Maples
ind Ollie Adcox of Pinehurst, one
ip on each nine, and thus started
he avalanche rolling with three
»oints to a blank. All told, four
Southern Pines teams shut-out
,heir opponents.
Two gplfing miracles helped
Pinehurst. Howard G. Phillips
and William Fitzgibbon were able
to defeat Malcolm Grover and Bill
Wilson of Southern Pines, one up,
because Mr. Phillips holed a full
six iron shot for a deuce at the
12th hole, the third on the short
nine.
Bob Harlow and Karl Andrews
of Pinehurst obtained an equal
split with Meredith Herndon and
Emerson Humphrey of Southern
Pines on the first nine, when Har
low holed out for a three at the
long 8th, from twenty yards short
of the green. The Southern Pines
players took the second nine, two
up, both Herndon and Humphrey
holing some important putts.
Phillips and Fitzgibbon and
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Southern Pines looked a
little like "the old days" over
the weekend as swarms of
khaki from Camp Mackall
window-shopped on Broad
Street, played tennis on the
park courts, or settled in the
shade of cool trees to escape
the hot weekend sun.
Most of them wearing the
familiar patch of the 97th In
fantry Division, they are part
of the Rear Echelon of this
division that was moved to
Mackall from Fort Bragg.
They have already been re
deployed, and will remain at
Mackall until they set out for
the "Land of the Rising Sun"
as part of the army of occupa
tion.
Freeman Is Held
Under $1,500 Bond
In Death of Mann
Carthage Man Suffo
cates After Being
Knocked to Ground
Funeral Services
for Mrs. VonCanon
Are Held Tuesday
yiest End Resident-
Passes Sunday Af
ter Week's Illness
A coroner’s jury which conven
ed Tuesday night bound Dewey
Freeman of Carthage to the Su
perior Court under bond of $1,-
500 in connection with the death
of Wiley Junnie Mann, 28-yeaT-old
Carthage man, who died Saturday
night in Carthage as a result of
what doctors termed suffocation.
According to the information
given. Freeman and Mann were
near the rear of the old burned
building formerly occupied by
Wallace Brothers when Freeman
struck Mann with his fist on the
back of the head, knocking him
to the ground. Mann fell face
downward into the deep sand and
while unconscious, it is thought
suffocated. He was carried ,to the
hospital for an X-ray.
So far as is known there had
been no previous trouble between
the men. Freeman, who has a
court record, failed to give bond
and is being held in jail.
Funeral services for Mann were
Funeral services for Mrs. Am
anda Tysinger VonCanon, 69,
wife of the late J- B. VonCannon,
former president of the Sandhill
Furniture Company, and member
of a prominent West End family,
were conducted Tuesday after
noon at 2 o’clock at the West End
Methodist Church with the Rev.
W. H. Brown officiating. Mrs.
VonCanon died at 4:30 p. m.
Sunday at the Moore County Hos
pital, where she had been ill for
a week of a heart ailment.
Active pallbearers were Dwight
Richardson, Byron Richardson,
M. C. McDonald, Jr., A. G. Mc
Duffie, Tom Lewis, and Tom
Cranford.
Mrs. Foy Horton had charge
of the flowers in the home and
Miss Virginia Greer along with a
flowek committee composed of
young friends and relatives of the
family had charge of the flowers
at the church.
Burial was in the West End
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PROMOTED
CC Directors To
Be Appointed At
Meeting Tuesday
Members and All
Interested Are
Asked to Attend
United War Fund Drive
Begins Next Monday;
County Quota $11,900
ROBERT F. DORN
Capt. Robert Finch Dorn who
is stationed with the Quartermas
ter Corps in Cherbourg, France,
was recently promoted to his pres
ent rank according to word re
ceived here by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry W- Dorn. Cap
tain Dorn was co-owner of Dorn’s
Grocery Store prior to enlisting
in the Army in June 1941. He
went overseas in February 1944,
to England where he remained un
conducted Monday at 3:00 p. m. |til he was sen^,to France the foL
from the Holly Springs Methodist lowing September. He has been
"Church by the Rev. Mr. Bradley,
pastor. Burial was in the Holly
Springs Cemetery.
Mann is survived by his mother
and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. S.
W. Champion; three sisters, Mrs.
Dan Wood of Holly Springs, and
Mrs. L. D. Pearce and Ila Mann,
both of Raleigh.
in France since that time except
for a recent leave in England.
Plans for the Southern Pines
Chamber of Comrperce, which
have been simmering for two
months now, will be completed
Tuesday night when old and new
members meet at the Country
Club at 8 p. m.
The .main purpose of the meet
ing is to elect the Board of Di
rectors so the Chamber can go
into action immediately. The
number of directors will be deter
mined and discussion of the first
action to be taken by the body
will take place at the meeting.
Early in August a committee,
composed of members of the Sen
ior and Junior Chambers of Com
merce, met and vested its powers
in a sub-committee which was to
finish the plans for coordinating
thfe two chambers.
For over a month pow a group,
headed by John Ruggles, Morris
Johnson and Chan Page, have
solicited memberships, adding to
the 34 original members some 75
members. Unable to contact all
prospective ,memb(er;s, the men
have asked that all interested cit
izens attend the meeting.
STANDARD TIME
Those who like an extra
nap on Sunday mornings will
be in luck next Sunday, for
they can turn their clocks
back an hour, take another
snooze, and still not be late
for breakfast. President Tru
man on Tuesday signed leg
islation returning the nation
to standard time effective at
2 a. m. Sunday, September
30. Clocks will be turned
back one hour to end day
light saving or. war tiifte.
James Orren Kelly
Of Carthage Dies
James Orren Kelly, around 37
years of age, member of a, promi
nent Moore County family, died
of a self-inflicted gunshot wound
about 1:00 a. m. Wednesday. The
tragedy occurred at the Kelly
home two miles from Carthage.
Funeral services were held at
4:00.,p. m. Thursday at the Car
thage Presbyterian Church with
the pastor, the Rev. W. S. Golden,
in charge. Interment was in the
cemetery there.
Mr. Kelly was a son of the late
Mr. and Mbs. M. C. Kelly. He is
survived by two brothers, Col.
Alex P. Kelly of Camp Rucker,
Ala., and John R. Kelly of Car
thage, and four sisters, Mrs. Sadie
Wall, Mrs. M. G. Boyette, and
Mrs. Charles Prevost, all of Car
thage, and Miss Margaret Kelly of
Pinehurst..
First Deer Hunt
Scheduled Tuesday
The first deer hunt sponsored
by the Southern Pines Hunt Club
will be' held Tuesday, October 2,
one day after the opening of the
deer-hunting season, it was de
cided at the organizational meet
ing of the club Wednesday night.
It was the first business meet
ing for the group who met at the
home of Cliff Johnson for a sou
thern-fried-chicken dinner before
the business session began. Offi
cers for the year are: president,
Bynum Patterson, vice president.
Cliff Johnson; secretary, Ed
Starnes, and treasurer, Lewis
Scheipers.
Vander Robinson was engaged
to furnish hounds and drive twice
a \>reek, Tuesday and Saturday,
beginning October 2, and ending
January 1, 1946. The hunt will
begin at 7 a. m. Tuesday. Further
details may be obtained by con
tacting one of the members.
Mrs. Smith Resigns
As Town Librarian
Attend Meeting of
Press Association
Bessie Cameron Smith and Ger
trude Walton of The Pilot attend
ed the North Carolina Press As
sociation meeting in Raleigh last
Friday, a feature of which was a
luncheon address by Josephus
Daniels, president of the News
and Observer.
Others from this section at
tending included Mr. and Mrs.
Robert E. Harlow of the Pinehurst
Outlook, H. Clifton Blue of the
Sandhill Citizen, Dougald Cox of
the Hoke County Journal, and W.
E. Horner of the Sanford Herald,
SOUTHERN PINES LIBRARY
RETiraNS TO SCHEDULE
The Southern Pines Library has
returned to its regular schedule,
remaining open from 9-12:30 in
the morning and from'2-5 in the
afternoon, ekeept for Wednesday
afternoon. During the summer
the library was closed Saturday
afternoon as well as Wednesday.
Announcement was made this
week of the resignation, effective
November 1, of Mrs. Thomas
Bradley Smith as Southern Pines
librarian, by A. B. Yeomps,
chairman of the Southern Pines
Library Association.
Mrs. Smith, who has served as
librarian for three and a half
years here, will substitute at the
library on occasions, but is un
able to remain on duty fulltime
due to home duties. Her succes
sor will be named at the County
board’s October ■ meeting.
100 Cases Handled
Monthly by County
Red Cross Chapter
Around 100 new cases are han
dled monthly by the Home Ser
vice Department of the Moore
County Red Cross, according to a
report by Mrs. Margaret R. Dyer,
Home Service secretary, at the re
cent executive meeting.
Mrs. Dyer cited a case which,
although exceptional, illustrated
one phase of Red Cross work. A
soldier in the South Pacific, who
was due to be discharged but was
not assigned to return to Amer
ica at that time was flown to his
home in Moore County in five
days due to the critical illness of
his wife.
Another service of the Home
Department is the provision of
social histories of boys in hospi
tals, giving family background,
ihedical and mental reports on the
family, which prove of great as
sistance to physicians. The Red
Cross investigates homes to see if
they are prepared to receive and
give proper attention to discharg
ed veterans. It provides financial
aid when warranted, among the
sundry other services performed.
A new group of volunteers are
taking the 13-weeks training
course to become members of the
Corps. They are: Mrs. James
Hobbs, Mrs. L. L. Woolley, Mrs.
Eleanor Fisher,- Miss Harriet Bar-
num, George Moore, Southern
Pines; Miss Nannie Hoyle and
Mrs Harriet McGraw, Carthage;
J. B. Edwards, Aberdeen; and
Mrs. Edith Hathaway, Pinehurst.
LOCAL TAX OFFICE HOURS
Office hours of Mrs. J. H. Til-
ghman, tax collector for the Town
of Southern Pines, are 9:30 to
11:00 a. m. and 1:30 to 4:00 p.
m. Her office is located in the
Municipal Building on East Broad
Street.
Specialists Will
Demonstrate Food
Freezing Methods
A demonstration on the freez
ing of foods will be held in the
courtroom at Carthage at 7:30 p.
m., Wednesday, October 3, con
ducted by Mrs. M^ry Lee McAl
lister, food Conservation special
ist, and Mr. Blumer of the Ani
mal Husbandry Department of
State College.
Mrs. McAllister will explain the
advantages of freezing, how it
fits into the family food conser
vation program. She will also
demonsttate how to use the
freezer locker effectively
and list the foods that are best
adapted to freezing.
Equipment necessary in the
home to prepare fruits and veg
etables for freezing will be exhib
ited while Mrs. McAllister dis
cusses freezing fruits and vege
tables and Mr. Blumer, freezing
meats.
With the construction of a freez
er locker plant underway in Car
thage and the possibility of one
in Aberdeen, the demonstration
on Wednesday, October 3, has ad
ded significance. Men and women
are invited to attend.
Walter C. Leslie
Dies Friday After
Extended Illness
Vass Resident Had
Taught Bible Class
Over Quarter Century
Chairman McDonald
Announces Various
Quotas and Leaders
J. Coburn Musser
Elected President
rkf UorrirtEin-v ^^e Rev. C. M. Voyles, pastor of
X CllCli Presbyterian Church
Walter C. Leslie, 68, a lifelong
resident of Vass and member of
one of the community’s most
prominent families, died in Lee
County Hospital, Sanford, Friday
afternoon after a long illness.
Funeral services were held a
the Baptist Church at 2:0Q p. m.
Sunday, with a large crowd at
tending. The service was conduct
ed by the Rev. J. O. Long, pastor
of the Vass Methodist Church, and
Pope's Restaurant
Will Not Reopen
Grover C. Pope, who has been
undergoing treatment at the
Moore County Hospital for the
past week, has been advised by
his physician that he cannot con
tinue to operate a restaurant—a
business in which he has been
engaged in Southern Pines for
the past several years-
Pope’s Restaurant closed when
he went to the hospital, and will
not reopen. Both Mr. and Mrs-
Pope are very appreciative of the
support given their business here,
and it is with reluctance that
they are retiring from this field.
Mrs. Pope stated Thursday that
they had made no immediate
plans for the future.
Local friends will be interested
to know that J. Coburn Musser,
formerly of Southern Pines, has
been elected president of Eber-
hard Faber Pencil Company to
succeed Eberhard Faber, son of
the founder, who continues as
chairman of the board. Mr. Mus
ser had been vice president of the
company since 1939.
According -to the New York
Herald’s story, Mr. Musser’s el
ection marks the first time in the
ninety-six-year history of the
firm that its active management
comes under the direction of an
individual not bearing the name
of Faber.
Mr. Musser, a son-in law of
Mrs. J. H. Andrews of Southern
Pines, has homes in Southern
Pines and Pinehurst and returns
to the Sandhills frequently.
While residing here before going
to New York to assume his du
ties with the pencil company, he
was active in the Kiwanis (ilub
and as a member of the Tin
Whistles golf club. He served as
county chairman of the American
Red Cross, and was interested in
all local civic affairs. Mrs. Musser
is expected in Southern Pines
very soon.
Mr. Long paid a beautiful tribute
to the life of Mr. Leslie, based on
his observations while visiting
him during his illness. Music was
by a quartet composed of Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Gladstone, Mrs. R. G.
Rosser, and W. C. Stephenson of
Cameron, with Mrs. N. N. Mc
Lean at the piano. One of the sel
ections used was Mr. Leslie’s fav-
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13 Men Leave For
Fort Bragg Today
BACKWASH
W. P. Sounders' Father
Dies Suddenly Tuesday
Funeral services for T. L. Saun
ders of Stanley, father of W. P.
Saunders of ' the Robbins Cloth
Mills at Robbins, were held on
Thursday of last week in the
First Methodist Church at Stan
ley. Mr. Saunders died suddenly
Tuesday night.
He is survived by his wife, five
sons and one daughter.
Interesting backwash from
last week's "flood" conlinues.
In Ihe feed store of McNeill
and Company in Fayetteville,
operated by W. H. McNeill of
Southern Pines, water is said
to have reached a depth of
19 inches. The store building
’s only a short distance east
the old Market House. Mr.
McNeill estimates damage to
grai^t and feed at from two to
three hundred dollars.
At the Seaboard station in
Camer^ a most unusual
sight was observed; With wa
ter surrounding the depot, W.
A. Muse, a^nt; had someone
drive a pic'^cup truck along
side the track so that passen
gers leaving a train could get
into the truc/c instead of into
the water. Muse wore rubber
boots. .
Local Riders Win
Championships
Local riders .brought home the
ribbons from the horse show in
Statesville last weekend, Septem
ber 21-22.
Mrs. W. O. Moss on Whiskdale
was tjumper champion, and Mr.
Moss, riding Renown, belonging
to D. W. Winklemao, winter res
ident of Southern Pines, was
hunter champion.
Lieut.' G. N. Saegmuller who is
stationed with the Coast Guard
in Charleston, S. C., riding The
Prince, was winner in the hunt
er hack class and was also re
serve champion hunter.
White men who will leave
Moore County today for Fort
Bragg for induction into the arm
ed service are as follow:
Southern Pines, Frank William
Tobin.
Carthage, Jesse Willard Free
man, Albert Cornelius Thompson,
Route 3; Jack Vernon Maness,
Route 1; Harold Land Davidson,
Route 2; Sam Bradley Seawell,
Route 1.
Robbins, Robert Edward Man
ess, Russell Eugene Hussey, Route
1.
Jackson Springs, Waylon Gor
don Blake.
Blake.
Eagle Springs, Clarence Edward
Brewer, Route 1.
Pinebluff, Billy Francis Ma
pies.
Steeds, Boyce Olen Yow, Route
1.
Glendon, indo Kelly Oldham.
Five Leave Oclober 1
Five Negro men have been no
tified by the Moore County Sel
ective Service Board to answer
an induction call at Fort Bragg
on October 1.
They afe: James Rochelle Small
and Fredie Lowrance Fisher, Sou
thern Pines; Charlie Coming Da
vis, Highfalls; Lee Mont Kelly,
Manly; and Bennie Ray, Jr., Car
thage.
The United War Fund drive, in
which Moore County is being
asked to raise $11,900 for the 22
agencies represented, will begin
next Monday, October 1. Coun
ty Chairman C. J. McDonald this
week announces the various local
quotas and chairmen, which are:
Aberdeen, $1,500, O Leon Sey
mour.
Adder, $200, Mrs. Clyde Addor.
Cameron, $400, L. B. McKeith-
en.
Carthage, $1,500, W. D. Sabis-
ton, Jr.
Eagle Springs, $200, Mrs. Marg
aret L. Lewis.
Hallison, $200, O. T. Parks.
Highfalls, $400, John Currie.
Pinebluff, $200, Mrs. Robert
Stewart.
Pinehurst, $1,000, Chester I.
Williams.
Robbins, $1,500, G. E. Walker.
Southern Pines, $3,000, Paul
Barnum.
Spies, $100, Mrs. Fulton Mon
roe.
Vass, $400, M. M. Chappell.
West End, $600, Clyde Auman.
Chairmen for three colored
communities have not yet been
named, but the following quotas
have been assigned them; West
Southern Pines, $100; Berkley,
$200; Eastwood-'raylortow'n, $100.
The County Executive Cornmit-
tee is composed of Sheriff Mc
Donald, chairman; Estelle T.
Wicker, Carthage, treasurer; W.
P. Saunders, Robbins, United War
Fund board member; J. M. Cur
rie and R. O. Taylor, Carthage;
Henry Blue and J. H. Floyd, Aber
deen; S. D. Sherrerd, Pinehurst;
M. C. McDonald, West End; C. C.
Underwood, Eagle Springs; W.
Stuart Evans, Robbins; L. B. Mc-
Keithen, Cameron; Alton M. Cam
eron, Vass; Roy A. Stutts, Lake-
view; Howard F. Burns, Southern
Pines; T. Roy Phillips, Steeds;
Rowland Upchurch, Highfalls; T.
H. Lingerfelt, Eureka.
This year’s county quota is the
same as last year’s, which was
over-subscribed by a substantial
margin.
Where the Money Goes
A break-down of where each
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Mrs. Turner, Wife
of Former Local
Hotel Man, Passes
Interest and Indifference Evidenced
at Prison Camp Religious Service
By Gertrude Walton
It might have been any other
worship service . . . they were
singing the same hymns, the
Scripture was read from a black,
familiar-looking Book, they all
bowed their heads for the closing
prayer. The difference was in the
audience, for some of the men
wore convict stripes and their
feet were shackled with chains.
It was Sunday at the State Prison
Camp.
The occasion was the monthly
visit of the Rev. Tucker G. Hum
phries, pastor of the Church of
Wide Fellowship. Ever since Mr,
ilumphries’ arrival in Southern
Pines two and a half years ago,
he has set aside the afternoon
of the fourth Sunday of each
month for a service at the camp.
Last Sunday, the fourth Sunday
in September, around a dozen peo
ple gathered in front of the
Church of Wide Fellowship, and
promptly at 2:’0 p. m., piled into
two cars and set out for the camp
some 20 miles away.
Camp Sighted
You’re kind of unprepared for
the first sight of the camp. Pris
ons are usually associated with
high gi’ey walls and sunless cells.
This prison looked like the front
of a model school building with
a well-cut carpet of grass which
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Five Participate
in Sanford Show
Five young equestriennes rep
resented Southern Pines in the
second annual horse show held
last Thursday evening in Temple
Park, Sanford.
The young ladies and their
mounts were: Jean Overton, Star
dust (Stoneybrook Stables);
Joanie Walsh, Gold Star (Stoney
brook); Patricia Caddell, her own
horse, Midgett; Edith Fay Cad
dell, her own horse. Silver; and
Phyllis Faircloth, Dixie (C. E.
Cox).
First prize in beginners’ horse
manship went to Phyllis Fair-
cloth, and second, third, fourth,
and fifth places in knock-down-
and-out went to Joanie Walsh,
Jean Overton, Edith Faye Cad
dell, and Phyllis Faircloth res-
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Mrs. Fanny H. Turner, widow
of Millard Turner, who was con
nected with the Highland Pines
Inn from its opening in 1912 un
til his death in 1940, died at 9:00
p. m. Sunday in the Moore Coun
ty Hospital, where she had been
a patient since Wednesday. She
had been in failing health for
several months.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday in the
Church of Wide Fellowship by the
pastor, the Rev. Tucker G. Hum
phries, and burial was in Mount
Hope Cemetery.
Mrs. Turner was born Febru
ary 7, 1881, in Meriden, Conn.,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick Hirschfield. She had
been a resident of Southern Pines
for the past 30 years, living on
Massachusetts Avenue near the
Highland Pineg. She was at one
time matron at the Moore County
Hospital.
She is survived by a brother,
William Hirschfield, who, with his
wife, is here from Meriden.
DRAFT BOARD OFFICE
CLOSES SATURDAYS
The Selective Service office for
Moore County, located in Carth
age, is closed all day Saturday in
compliance with the government
order for all federal offices to go
on a 40-hour week. The office is
open from' 8:30 a. m. until 5:30 p.
m., Monday through Friday.
SHERIFF McDonald elected
STATE ASSOCIATION OFFICER
Sheriff C. J. McDonald was
elected second vice president,
1945-46, of the North Carolina
Sheriff’s Association at the an
nual convention in Winston-Sa
lem last week.